Recovery from Thrips Injury and Herbicides Peanut Notes No. 90 2026

(Updated: May 27, 2026, 1:16 p.m.)
New growth after insecticide was applied to suppress thrips

Insecticide was applied about four days prior to taking this image. Note that the new growth has improved over the older growth expressing injury from thrips. My suggestion is that you wait at least 10 days after severe injury caused by thrips occurs before you apply paraquat plus Basagran. I would wait another week before I applied paraquat to these peanuts. That might force you to shift from paraquat to products like Storm or Ultra Blazer depending on the weed spectrum and weed size.